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One of my hobbies is bothering the God botherers or, more accurately defined, pestering the Evangelicals. I go to a number of forums where religion is a hot topic and announce that I am a "gay" Christian. I'm delighted to say that this normally becomes the entire topic of conversation for enormous periods of time. Great fun it is! Those who are supposed to be demonstrating Christ's love quickly show their true colors when I'm attacked with a vengeance. (I needn't tell you how they react when I tell them they must be inhabited by an evil spirit that has supplanted God's love.) But what is surprising is the number of Christians who rise to my defense. And these are "straight" Christians to boot! More and more it seems there are people who are not willing to rise to the homophobic rhetoric of the mainstream beliefs. It actually leaves me with the hope that there may one day come a new Christian ethic in the U.S., one that actually incorporates the love that is supposed to emanate from a Christian. I'm not holding my breath until that day arrives, however.
Oh yes, there are a fair amount of atheists who love these sites as well. I have been leaving these poor souls something to believe in themselves. I steer them towards a religion that anyone can handle - ie - Timmy's chocolatecakechurch.org. What the heck, everyone needs something to believe in. ;-D
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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This is a lot like poking a stick into a hornets nest.....
It certainly doesnt stop the hornets from being hornets...
But it does give the hornets a reason to sting the person with the stick.....
Lets hope that hornets don't learn to associate all stick holders as nest pokers....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Oh do please steer anyone you wish to the Chocolate Cake Church! Its mainly Megaman's baby!
The more the merrier!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Well, Paul,
I've done some of that too - though I don't ever tell them I'm a gay Christian (because I'm not a Christian, you understand!) But they are amazingly hard to argue with because they seem to have learned doublespeak at their mothers' knees. (or newspeak as Orwell named it.)
But now I do get quite a few spam emails from brothers in Christ or sisters of mercy and suchlike. The amusement doesn't last long.
Love,
Anthony
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